The Bus-Shite Files: IMBERBUS

[chaseracer]

What a great idea...

 

[busmansholiday]

Runs every year, and has done for a fair few now.

[LightBulbFun]

as a Routemaster enthusiast id love to take part/ride on the run one of these days (wonder if I can photobomb it with REV  )

and just in general id love to get to more bus/Routemaster gatherings/shows etc

I used to ride the Heritage Route 15's a lot too, but that all went to pot when I did my back in sadly

(I can get on a Routemaster just fine, but its the travelling there (and back) to get to them thats the problem!)

I also really need to renew my RMOOA membership, I tried to a while back but it requires a login from what I can see, but I never got a login, so I sent off an email but never heard back, must try again one of these days!

(in one of the RMOOA magazines from 2008 you can find a picture of me standing in front of ER882 )

 

also Bonus points for the MD there!

[strangeangel]

One of the (many) nice things about Towersey Folk Festival was the shuttle bus that took you to Thame to buy beer and Pot Noodles. It cost a pound to go on the bus, which was none other than a Routemaster piloted by Radio 2's Ken Bruce! Now the festival is in Thame rather than Towersey itself I imagine that the bus is no longer to be seen

 

[chaseracer]

2 hours ago, strangeangel said:

...none other than a Routemaster piloted by Radio 2's Ken Bruce!

Part-owned with Charles Nove out of Scala Radio!

[quicksilver]

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

Part-owned with Charles Nove out of Scala Radio!

Also Alan 'Voice of the Balls' Dedicoat and a few other BBC DJs who made up the 'Broadcasters' Bus Consortium'. At one point they had about half a dozen buses between them and actually ran them commercially. Mainly Routemasters but Charles Nove had a nice Leyland Titan.

[busmansholiday]

3 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

(in one of the RMOOA magazines from 2008 you can find a picture of me standing in front of ER882

Wrote a couple of articles for them back in about 2000 about the Sri Lankan Routemasters.

[Six-cylinder]

Imber was an interesting visit, we did it Dec 2009 with B.O.R.G. 4x4 Club.

[brownnova]

One of the things I like about Llandudno Transport festival is the opportunity to ride an old bus into town... 

[2flags]

I used to drive the RM buses when they were in service. I would imagine these are kept in better condition than those we used to drive. I can tell you that when the power steering fluid all runs out the steering gets really  heavy!! [Tore my back muscles when it happened as I'd just turned in towards a bus stop. If I hadn't got it back, would have made the six o'clock news.]